Pakistani writer Saba Imtiaz writes about the Malala win. The Guardian reports:

"Congratulatory messages came in from the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, as well as a slew of other politicians. But there is sadness amongst many in Pakistan that Malala isn't in Pakistan to celebrate this, and that she was nearly killed for her work advocating education for children."There's also a bitter sense of irony that Malala, like Pakistan's first Nobel Laureate theoretical physicist Dr Abdus Salam, has been the subject of a campaign of vilification in Pakistan.

"Dr Salam has been virtually forgotten in Pakistan because he was a member of the Ahmadiyya sect, which has been excommunicated in Pakistan, and Malala has been accused of selling out to the West. Liaquat Baloch, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, a right-wing religious-political party, told the Guardian that "Malala is a Pakistani student and she is getting a lot of support and patronage abroad.

"On the surface this is not a bad thing and we welcome this, and there is no objection to the award, but the attack on Malala and then her support in the West creates a lot of suspicions. There are lots of girls in Pakistan who have been martyred in terrorist attacks, women who have been widowed, but no one gives them an award. So these out of the box activities are suspicious."